Yehudai Gaon

Yehudai Gaon ( Gaon Yehudai / Yehudai ben Nahman ) was from 757 to approximately 761 school principal of the Jewish academy at Sura.

As written work are from him the Halachot Pesukot, a systematic collection of Talmudic law, survived.

He tried already at that time about ( in Palestine! ) To displace the Palestinian Talmud by the Babylonian Talmud.

He wrote thirty additives in Tractate Baba Metzia.

Literature (selection )

  • Louis Ginzberg: Geonica. Volume I, 1909
  • Ozar Yisrael. Volume IV, Vienna 1924
  • Simon Dubnow: World history of the Jewish people. 1925 et seq, Volume III
  • Louis Lewin: Product JEHUDAJ ben Nachman. In: Jewish Encyclopedia. Berlin 1927, Volume III
  • Hermann L. Strack and Günter Stemberger: Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash. 7th edition, Beck, Munich 1982
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  • Jew (Antiquity )
  • Jewish Literature
  • Born in the 7th or 8th century
  • Died in the 8th or 9th century
  • Man
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